Fruit of the Cow

[A fine example of bachelor food, grilled using a coathanger over the one burner that still works, found here.]

The Best of BOLLARDS III

Click any image to enlarge. Related posts: The Best of BOLLARDS I & II.
All posts tagged “bollards” here.
Most images were lifted from World Bollard Associationâ„¢.

Belemnoidal Hot Links

Ain’t No Big Thing, The Original Spontanes (2011) In 1966, The Spontanes (aka Joey Ray & The Spontanes, The Original Spontanes) recorded a cover of The RadientsAin’t No Big Thing (1965), then reprised it at a the Carolina R&B Reunion, Gastonia NC in 2011.

Stealth.

Kid hacks.

Nice people.

Screw bikes.

24 Godesses.

Nudie branch.

Eternal Ascent.

Trucks & Lorries.

How to steal stuff.

Bees can do math!

When dots connect.

Norty Blues Episode 61.

Stopping self-driving cars.

Concept cars [via Mme. Jujujive].

Damascus goat [via Bunkerville].

You Can’t Park There, Sir. [Sound up]

The Positive of the Negative [via The View From Lady Lake].

Digital porcelain sculptures of celebrities kissing themselves.

The Management Secrets of Genghis Khan [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: Space Suits Playing Cards found here via This Isn’t Happiness.]


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Saturday Matinee – The Courettes, The Holophonics & Dan Patlansky

Dubbed The World’s Greatest Two Person Rock ‘N’ Roll Ensemble, Flavia & Martin Couri, aka The Courettes, make retro new again. Hop hop.

The Holophonics are a ska punk reggae band with members from New York City, Dallas/Ft. Worth & Southern California. At least they have a Facebook page.

This trio consists of Dan Patlansky / guitar & vocals, Tom Schwan / bass and Ben Matthews / drums. Patlansky is a blues guitarist from South Africa, was voted the No. 4 Best Guitarist in the world. He’s the only artist with two worldwide No. 1 and two No. 2 Best Blues Rock album awards as voted by Blues Rock Review.

Been another week full of Time Flies and I still haven’t figured out how to slow them down. I plan to be up at the crack of noon tomorrow for porch time and we can discuss our options then. See you when you get here.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 851 – Stumpy Falls, Doggo Is Not Amused & The Speed Trap in the Attic

[Found here, here and here via here.]

Imagination Transportation

Things I Have Drawn imagines a world in which the things kids draw are real. What started as a silly little project between dad, Tom, and his 6-year-old son, Dom, soon had Dom’s younger brother, Al, joining in the fun, and more recently has turned into something much much bigger, with parents sending their kid’s drawings in from all over the world.

[Images from Things I Have Drawn via here. Click on any image to enlarge. Related posts here and here.]

Springfield’s Finest

In late 2023, graphic designer “Princess_Prompt” threw The Simpsons characters into an AI image generator to see  how well it responded to text prompts:

“I wanted to imagine what a live action series of The Simpsons could look like in the flesh in an ’80s style, the era of their birth. As a fan of The Simpsons and Matt Groening’s work since childhood, I found them to be the ideal subject for experimentation.”

[Story here, images found here, more characters and a brief interview here, and Princess_Prompt’s explanations on Reddit here.]

Parbuckled Hot Links

The Colour of Don Don, The Cactus Channel (2012)
The Cactus Channel is/was a hip hop funk & soul group from Melbourne AU. Nice Stax/Volt influence. The 7-10 piece group has apparently disbanded to pursue other projects.

The Doggos.

Negative space.

Diddy Wah Diddy.

Fugu [via Bunkerville].

Homage to GMC trucks.

Norty Blues Episode 60.

Drawing a Phénakistiscope.

Another movie I haven’t seen.

People have raised concerns…

Asteroid City [via Mme. Jujujive].

In ’71, after I graduated high school

What’s your source?” [via Mogadishu Matt].

The last Woolworth’s Lunch Counter [h/t Paul Y.]

Carnival of Venice, Mosé Tapiero on ocarina, 1908.

Making ocarinas in South Korea [via Memo Of The Air].

California’s 3rd largest city is a ghost town [h/t Paul Y.]

Beautiful rendition of the Theme to Titanic [h/t Charlene J.]

[Top image: 1954 Hubley’s Atomic Disintegrator. A weapon like this may fetch $300 or more at auction.]


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